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The Public Sector
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Part 1 ā The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues
- 1 Introduction: Issues and Context
- 2 Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis
- 3 Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings
- 4 Responding to Citizensā Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector
- Part 2 ā The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems
- 5 Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues
- 6 The Modern State: Continental Traditions
- 7 Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems
- 8 The Blurring of the Distinction āState Versus Societyā in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State
- 9 The Hidden Public Sector: The āQuangocratizationā of the World?
- 10 Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue
- Part 3 ā Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning
- 11 The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation
- 12 Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks
- 13 Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning
- 14 Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation
- 15 The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis
- 16 A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector
- 17 Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: āComptrolā and āInterpolable Balanceā
- Part 4 ā Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination
- 18 Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of Their Antagonism and Compatibility
- 19 Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What?
- 20 Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions
- 21 Votes and Vetoes
- 22 Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment
- 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government
- 24 A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements
- 25 Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion
- List of Contributors
- Index of Authors
- Index of Subjects